Nothing Hurts Worse Than The Loss Of

Envy Like Fire Always Makes For The Highest Points.

Avarice And Luxury, Those Evils Which Have Been The Ruin Of Every Great State.

An Honor Prudently Declined Often Returns With Increased Luster.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

Nature Has Ordained That The Man Who Is Pleading His Own Cause Before A Large Audience, Will Be More Readily Listened To Than He Who Has No Object In View Other Than The Public Benefit.